Agatha Christie
Born: 1890-09-14 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK
Died: 1976-01-12
Known For: Writing
Biography
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. In 1971 she was made a Dame for her contribution to literature. Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, and more than thirty feature films have been based on her work.
Filmography
2026
- Agatha Christie's Seven Dials ... (Novel)
- Tommy & Tuppence ... (Novel)
2025
- Towards Zero ... (Novel)
2023
- A Haunting in Venice ... (Novel)
- Murder Is Easy ... (Novel)
- Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley ... (Novel)
2022
- Death on the Nile ... (Novel)
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? ... (Novel)
- Agatha Christie und der Orient as Self (archive footage)
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles ... (Writer)
2021
- They Were Ten ... (Novel)
- Agatha Christie's Hjerson ... (Characters)
- Promise of Death ... (Novel)
2020
- The Pale Horse ... (Novel)
- Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple as Self - Writer (archive footage)
2019
- A Murder Is Announced ... (Novel)
- Le Crime en héritage : Agatha Christie crève l'écran as Self - Writer (archive footage)
2018
- The ABC Murders ... (Novel)
- Ordeal by Innocence ... (Novel)
- Ms Ma, Nemesis ... (Novel)
- 4.50 from Paddington ... (Novel)
- Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime as Self - Writer (archive footage)
- The Murder of Kuroido ... (Original Story)
- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ... (Novel)
- Dangling by a String ... (Thanks)
2017
- Murder on the Orient Express ... (Novel)
- Crooked House ... (Novel)
- And Then There Were None ... (Novel)
- Agatha Christie contre Hercule Poirot : Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ? as Self (archive footage)
2016
- Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime as Self (archive footage)
- The Witness for the Prosecution ... (Novel)
- Chorabali ... (Novel)
2015
- And Then There Were None ... (Novel)
- Partners in Crime ... (Novel)
- Nin9 ... (Novel)
- Murder on the Orient Express ... (Original Story)
2013
- Miss Marple: Endless Night ... (Author)
- The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet as Self - Writer (archive footage)
2012
- Partners in Crime ... (Story)
2011
- Fatal Invitation ... (Novel)
2009
- The Little Murders of Agatha Christie ... (Novel)
2008
- Crime Is Our Business ... (Novel)
- The Great Alibi ... (Novel)
2007
- Towards Zero ... (Novel)
2006
- Petits Meurtres en famille ... (Novel)
- Agathe kann’s nicht lassen ... (Writer)
2005
- By the Pricking of My Thumbs ... (Novel)
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple ... (Novel)
- Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple ... (Book)
- Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Identity ... (Original Concept)
- Sparkling Cyanide ... (Novel)
- Shubho Muharat ... (Novel)
2002
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ... (Writer)
2001
- Murder on the Orient Express ... (Novel)
1999
- The Unknown ... (Novel)
1997
- Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse ... (Novel)
- The Mousetrap ... (Writer)
1996
- Missing Painting ... (Novel)
1995
- Innocent Lies ... (Novel)
- Suspicions ... (Writer)
1992
- Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ... (Novel)
- Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors ... (Novel)
- Murder in the Memory ... (Novel)
1991
- The Trouble With Agatha Christie as Self - Writer (archive footage)
1990
- Mousetrap ... (Theatre Play)
- Peril at End House ... (Novel)
- Bloody Mansion Death ... (Book)
- Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait as Self (archive footage)
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot ... (Novel)
- The Man in the Brown Suit ... (Novel)
- Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery ... (Novel)
- Ten Little Indians ... (Novel)
1988
- Appointment with Death ... (Novel)
1987
- Miss Marple: Nemesis ... (Novel)
- Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder ... (Novel)
- Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel ... (Novel)
- Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington ... (Novel)
- Ten Little Indians ... (Novel)
1986
- Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage ... (Novel)
- Murder in Three Acts ... (Novel)
- Dead Man's Folly ... (Novel)
- Pelėkautai ... (Novel)
- Old house for sale ... (Novel)
- Agatha Christie’s The Last Seance ... (Short Story)
1985
- Miss Marple: The Moving Finger ... (Novel)
- Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye ... (Novel)
- Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced ... (Original Film Writer)
- Thirteen at Dinner ... (Novel)
- Murder with Mirrors ... (Novel)
- Dangerous Women ... (Novel)
- Ten Little Maidens ... (Novel)
1984
- Miss Marple: The Body in the Library ... (Novel)
- Miss Marple ... (Writer)
- Ordeal by Innocence ... (Novel)
1983
- Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime ... (Novel)
- Shades of Darkness ... (Writer)
- The Secret Adversary ... (Novel)
- A Caribbean Mystery ... (Novel)
- Sparkling Cyanide ... (Novel)
- Secret of the Blackbirds ... (Novel)
1982
- The Agatha Christie Hour ... (Short Story)
- Evil Under the Sun ... (Novel)
- Witness for the Prosecution ... (Novel)
- Murder Is Easy ... (Novel)
- Spider's Web ... (Novel)
- The Soul's beauty ... (Short Story)
1981
- Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery ... (Novel)
1980
- Masterpiece Mystery ... (Writer)
- The Mirror Crack'd ... (Novel)
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? ... (Novel)
- Towards Zero ... (Novel)
1978
- The South Bank Show
- Death on the Nile ... (Novel)
1974
- Murder on the Orient Express ... (Novel)
- And Then There Were None ... (Novel)
1973
- Black Coffee ... (Novel)
- Dhund ... (Writer)
1972
- Monday's Theater ... (Writer)
- Endless Night ... (Novel)
1970
- Les Dix Petits Nègres ... (Novel)
- Five Dolls for an August Moon ... (Novel)
- Mord im Pfarrhaus ... (Novel)
- Nadu Iravil ... (Novel)
1969
- La Toile d'araignée ... (Novel)
- Zehn kleine Negerlein ... (Story)
1967
- Love from a Stranger ... (Novel)
1966
- At Theatre Tonight ... (Writer)
- Les Quatre Vérités ... (Novel)
1965
- Ten Little Indians ... (Novel)
- The Alphabet Murders ... (Novel)
- Gumnaam ... (Novel)
1964
- Murder Most Foul ... (Novel)
- Murder Ahoy ... (Novel)
1963
- Murder at the Gallop ... (Novel)
1961
- Kraft Mystery Theatre ... (Writer)
- Murder She Said ... (Novel)
- I Am Justice ... (Novel)
1960
- Chupi Chupi Aashey ... (Novel)
- The Spider's Web ... (Theatre Play)
1959
- Ten Little Indians ... (Novel)
1957
- Witness for the Prosecution ... (Novel)
- Ein Fremder kam ins Haus ... (Novel)
1956
- Das Spinnennetz ... (Novel)
1955
- ITV Play of the Week ... (Story)
- Spider's Web ... (Screenplay)
1954
- The Gallery of the Great Detectives ... (Novel)
1953
- General Electric Theater ... (Story)
1951
- Goodyear Television Playhouse ... (Novel)
1950
- Danger ... (Writer)
- Lux Video Theatre ... (Writer)
- Sure As Fate ... (Writer)
- Nash Airflyte Theatre ... (Story)
- The Trap ... (Writer)
1949
- Suspense ... (Writer)
- Fireside Theater ... (Writer)
- Witness for the Prosecution ... (Story)
- Ten Little Indians ... (Novel)
1948
- Studio One ... (Novel)
- The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre ... (Writer)
1947
- Love from a Stranger ... (Novel)
1945
- And Then There Were None ... (Novel)
1937
- Love from a Stranger ... (Novel)
1936
- Theatre Parade ... (Writer)
1934
- Lord Edgware Dies ... (Novel)
1932
- The Lackered Box ... (Novel)
1931
- Alibi ... (Novel)
- Black Coffee ... (Novel)
1929
- Adventures Inc. ... (Novel)
1928
- The Passing of Mr. Quinn ... (Writer)